Comment by thereisnospork
3 days ago
It's not extraordinary to state that every single thing we eat[0] can have a study designed around it to show that it might cause cancer -- that is how studies and chemicals (things we eat) work.
[0]Except water, maybe. I'd bet if you shoved enough water into a rat at minimum you could observe an increase in tumor growth rate though.
Sorry, IARC already labeled hot water a “possible carcinogen” a decade ago [0]. That puts water into the same risk category as RoundUp
[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/panel-s-advice-cance...
But isn’t it true. As in it’s not the chemicals in tea that causes throat cancer but the hot water.
This provides useful insight in that you should cool down tea/coffee before drinking